Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Celery
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Etymology== First attested and printed in English as "sellery" by [[John Evelyn]] in 1664,<ref>Grigson G. 1974. ''A Dictionary of English Plant Names''. Allen Lane {{ISBN|0-71-390442-9}}</ref> the modern English word "celery" derives from the [[French language|French]] ''céleri'', in turn from [[Italian language|Italian]] ''seleri'', the plural of ''selero'', which comes from [[Late Latin]] ''selinon'',<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dselinon | title= selinon| editor-first1= Charlton T. |editor-last1= Lewis|editor-first2=Charles |editor-last2= Short| work=A Latin Dictionary| publisher=Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University}}</ref> the [[Latinisation (literature)|latinisation]] of the {{langx|grc|σέλινον|selinon}}, "celery".<ref>{{cite web |title=σέλινον |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dse%2Flinon |work=A Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University |editor-first1=Henry George |editor-last1=Liddell |editor-first2=Robert |editor-last2=Scott}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=celery |title= celery| website=Etymonline.com }}</ref> The earliest-attested form of the word is the [[Mycenaean Greek]] ''se-ri-no'', written in [[Linear B]] syllabic script.<ref>{{cite web| title= celery| url= http://www.palaeolexicon.com/ShowWord.aspx?Id=16927| website= Palaeolexicon.com| access-date= 2016-04-01| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160413031114/http://www.palaeolexicon.com/ShowWord.aspx?Id=16927| archive-date= 2016-04-13| url-status= dead}}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Celery
(section)
Add topic